152 FRINGILLIDA. 
pale bluish-green, sparingly speckled at the broad end with deep 
purplish-brown or black. They exhibit no trace of any of the 
pinkish-brown shell-markings so constantly to be found on the eggs 
cf L. chloris. On the other hand, an eighth specimen has only a 
few pinkish shell-markings, the darker surface-markings being 
almost absent; the two eggs from Si-ning exhibit numerous small 
darker and lighter purplish-red shell-markings, as well as a few 
darker surface-spots ; and, in the clutch from Chin-kiang, the eggs 
are white, without markings of any kind. Specimens measure 
from ‘7 to ‘76 in length, and from °5 to *55 in breadth. 
4. Chin-kiang, China, 12th May. J. D. La Touche, Esq. [C. }. 
1. Foochow, China, Ist April. C. B. Rickett, Esq. [P. }. 
2. Foochow, 17th May. C. B. Rickett, Esq. [ P.}. 
4. Fouchow, 24th June. C. B. Rickett, Esq. [P.]. 
1. Amoy (&. Swinhoe: Tristram Crowley Bequest. 
Coll.). 
2, Si-ning, Kansu, 12th May. — Crowley Bequest. 
Ligurinus ussuriensis (Huarteri). 
Chloris sinica, Nehrk. (nee Linn.) Kat. Eiersamml. p. 104 (1899). 
Chloris sinica ussuriensis, Hartert, Vog. Pal. Faun. pt. 1. p. 64 (1903). 
Ligurinus ussuriensis, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 197 (1908). 
Two eggs of the Ussuri Greenfinch are of a wide blunt oval 
shape, and closely resemble certain eggs of L. chloris. The ground- 
colour is pale greenish-blue, with reddish-lilac shell-markings and 
a few dark purplish-brown surface-spots, mostly about the larger 
end. ‘They measure respectively ‘7 by *09 and °7 by °50. 
1. Sidemi, Ussuri River, East Siberia, Crowley Bequest. 
18th May. 
1. Sidemi, 26th May. Crowley Bequest. 
Genus EOPHONA, Gould. 
Eophona melanura (Gme/.). 
Eophona melanura, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 28 (1888) ; Dresser, 
Man. Pal. Birds, pt. i. p. 286 (1902) ; La Touche, Ibis, 1906, p. 627 ; 
Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 197 (1908). 
Euphona melanura, Nehrk. Kat, Eiersammil. p. 104 (1899). 
Hone ons melanura melanura, Hartert, Vog. Pal. Faun. pt. i. p. 59 
(1903). 
Eggs of the Black-tailed Hawfinch recall in general appearance 
those of Coccothraustes coccothraustes, but they are more heavily 
marked. They vary in shape from a very broad to a somewhat 
pointed oval form, and are distinctly glossy. They are pale 
greyish- or olive-green, with strongly-marked rounded spots and 
irregular lines and scrolls of very dark brown, and with under- 
